It bugs me when editors don't keep track of whether or not a document has been modified. If I hit save and I haven't modified it, but the editor writes a new timestamp, it is no longer accurate, because it wasn't edited at that time.
That's exactly the point - from the spec's perspective they aren't identical, but from every user's perspective they are. Same pages, same text, same rendering. The interesting question is whose definition of "identical" should govern when you're building audit trails or deduplication systems.
It bugs me when editors don't keep track of whether or not a document has been modified. If I hit save and I haven't modified it, but the editor writes a new timestamp, it is no longer accurate, because it wasn't edited at that time.
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Spoiler: They're not identical.
That's exactly the point - from the spec's perspective they aren't identical, but from every user's perspective they are. Same pages, same text, same rendering. The interesting question is whose definition of "identical" should govern when you're building audit trails or deduplication systems.
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